From: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
To: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rtc-linux@googlegroups.com,
Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] rtc: Add OF device table to I2C drivers that are missing it
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 16:01:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170303150134.qacfd7ccemqxwq3p@piout.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170303142925.17915-1-javier@osg.samsung.com>
Hi,
On 03/03/2017 at 11:29:11 -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> This series add OF device ID tables to RTC I2C drivers whose devices are
> either used in Device Tree source files or are listed in binding docs as
> a compatible string.
>
> That's done because the plan is to change the I2C core to report proper OF
> modaliases instead of always reporting a MODALIAS=i2c:<foo> regardless if
> a device was registered via DT or using the legacy platform data.
>
Doesn't that break the DT ABI for all i2c devices? A lot of people are
getting the vendor wrong in the compatible string and because the i2c
core doesn't care, the driver is still probed. Dropping that will break
all those DTBs.
Or will that only affect module autoload?
--
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-03 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-03 14:29 Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 01/13] rtc: rv8803: Add OF device ID table Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 02/13] rtc: rv3029: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 03/13] rtc: bq32k: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 04/13] rtc: ds1307: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 05/13] rtc: rx8010: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 06/13] rtc: ds3232: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 07/13] rtc: rtc-ds1672: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 08/13] rtc: ds1374: Set .of_match_table to " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 09/13] rtc: isl1208: Add " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 10/13] rtc: s35390a: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 11/13] rtc: rx8581: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 12/13] rtc: m41t80: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 14:29 ` [PATCH 13/13] rtc: rs5c372: " Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 15:01 ` Alexandre Belloni [this message]
2017-03-03 15:27 ` [PATCH 00/13] rtc: Add OF device table to I2C drivers that are missing it Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-03 16:04 ` Alexandre Belloni
2017-03-03 17:08 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2017-03-09 0:30 ` Alexandre Belloni
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